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...really a comedy. Directed and co-written by Lewis in his "total filmmaker" phase, it mostly projected the comic's disastrous desire to morph his gloriously geeky anarchist into a soulful clown. Murphy, abetted by director Tom Shadyac and a whole raft of writers, cannot entirely escape the curious blend of aspiration and sloppiness that marked the earlier film...
...seek solace in the offices of alternative therapists and faith healers--to the tune of $30 billion a year, by some estimates. Millions more is spent on best-selling books and tapes by New Age doctors such as Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil and Larry Dossey, who offer an appealing blend of medicine and Eastern-flavored spirituality (see following story...
There's a good, crystallizing movie to be made out of that thought. But The Cable Guy is not it, mostly because its pathology is more schizophrenic than paranoid, knockabout one minute, knockover the next. In a way, that suits Jim Carrey's comic genius, with its eerie blend of sublime self-confidence and anarchical menace. To see him, as the eponymous electronics installer, engage in passionate foreplay with a wall, seeking its perfect cable G-spot, then drill into it in rapacious fury, is to be transported to a realm of exquisitely mixed light and dark. Like Matthew Broderick...
...mall was intended to "architecturally blend in" with the area, according to Karp, who says the mall is "an urban project unmatched" anywhere in the United States...
...strange vegetable paella she found in the refrigerator and then finally a leftover chicken dish with olives, tomatoes and cheese. How did she get her friends to drink this stuff? They were drunk and believed what she said: "I told them, 'It's my secret sauce, secret recipe, private blend.' They drank it. And it smelled atrocious." And she laughs again...